Metallic railway tie



Dec. -4, 1923; 1,476,641

G. PRESS METALLIC RAILWAY TIE Filed June '7, 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet l I I, I

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' G. RESS METALLIC RAILWAY TIE Filed June '7, 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet? Patented Dec. 4, 1923.

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GEORGE PRESS, OI FREEDOM, OKLAHOMA.

METALLIC RAILWAY TIE.

Application filed .Tune 7, 1922.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, Gnonon Pnnss, a citizen of the United States, residing at Freedom, in the county of Woods and State of Oklahoma, have invented new and useful Improvements in Metallic Railway Ties, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my present invention is the provision of an efiicient metallic railway tie that is not unduly expensive and yet is susceptible of being expeditiously and easily installed without the employment of skilled labor.

To the attainment of the foregoing the invention consists in the improvement as hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, hereby made a part hereof Figure 1 is a plan View illustrative of a railway tie constructed in accordance with my invention in proper relation to two rails.

Figure 2 is an enlarged side elevation illustrating one end portion of my novel tie and also illustrating in transverse section a rail properly positioned relatively to the tie.

Figure 3 is an end elevation of the tie.

Figure 4 is a detail section taken through the end portion of the tie and also through a rail thereon.

Figure 5 is a section on the line 55 of Figure 2.

Figure 6 is a detail view of one of the rail securing members of the tie.

Figure 7 is a detail View illustrative of the seat in which said member is removably secured.

Figure 8 is a longitudinal horizontal section taken in the plane indicated by the line 88 of Figure 2.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings.

My novel metallic railway tie is made up of a body and rail securing members 1 associated with and detachably connected to the said body.

The body alluded to is appropriately formed in one piece, and comprises a base 2, chairs 3 to seat rails 4 rail-retaining lugs 5, a housing 6 between the inner ends of the chairs 3, receptacles 7 for the rail securing members 1, and pins 8 to detachably secure the members 1 in the receptacles 7. The lugs 5 are located on the ends of the hous- Serial No. 566,444.

ing 6 and are spaced above the chairs 3 so as to strongly hold the outer edges of the rail bases down on said chairs.

The rail securing members 1 are each formed in one piece and each comprises an upper open portion 9 adapted to be used as a hand hold and having its inner end portion 10 shaped to rest between the base and head of a rail and against the outer side of the head. Each securing member 1 also comprises base flanges 11 to rest on the upper side of the complementary receptacle 7 and a longitudinal shank 12 in the opposite sides of which are one or more (preferably pairs) of inclined grooves 13. Each of the receptacles 7 is provided on the inner sides of its side walls with ribs 14 inclined downwardly and inwardly and adapted to occupy the grooves 13 of one member 1 when the said member 1 is slipped downwardly into its receptacle 7. Manifest-1y when either member 1 is manipulated as stated relatively to its receptacle 7 the member will be moved both downwardly and endwise inwardly into engagement with a rail so as to securely hold the rail under the lugs 5 and on the chair 3. After the securing members 1 are arranged as stated relatively to the body of the tie and the rails arranged thereon, the pins 8 are arranged transversely through the receptacle 7 and the shanks 12 of the members 1 to fasten the said members in the receptacles.

In the practical use of my novel railway tie it will be observed that the tie may be quickly and easily placed in position on and secured by ballast placed in the housingfi through the opening 6 thereof, and that after the placing of the body of the tie the rails may be expeditiously and easily secured on the body in such manner that there is practically no liability of the rails being accidentally displaced or released.

l-Iaving described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters- Patent, is

In a railway tie the combination with a body having spaced chairs, rail holding means at the inner sides of and above the I bottoms of the chairs, means interposed beribs; of rail securing members each having an upper open portion adapted to serve as a hand hold with an inner end shaped to rest between the base and head of a rail and each also having base flanges to rest on the upper side of one receptacle and a longitudinal apertured shank with inclined grooves to receive said ribs and also with a transverse aperture, and bolts detachably secured in the apertures of the receptacles 10 and shanks to hold the rail securing members to the body.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

GEORGE PRESS. 

